Medical Student Research Opportunities in the UCD Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Research Laboratory

Ming-Sing Si, MDDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Department of SurgeryUniversity of California Davis

msi@ucdavis.edu

Heart Function= systolic function + diastolic function

Heart Failure• Inadequate systemic cardiac output as a

result of systolic and/or diastolic dysfunction of the heart

Self-Organized Cardiac Tissue

Day 2

Day 4 Day 6

Vascularization of EHT

Generating capillary network with mesenchymal stem cells and endothelial cells

Vascularization of EHT

Taking our expertise in patient perfusion back to the bench to improve the generation of engineered cardiac tissue.

Perfusion bioreactor for vacsularization project

Medical Student Roles• Well-defined projects to match time

commitment.• Productivity resulting in first-authored

published abstracts and manuscripts are expected.

• Will assist interested students in preparing applications for stipend/research funding.

• Opportunities for students to also attend clinics and observe pediatric cardiac surgeries